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dc.contributor.authorVollm, Birgit A.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-22T11:01:32Z
dc.date.available2017-12-22T11:01:32Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationMcDonald, R., Furtado, V. & Vollm, B. A. (2017). Medicine, madness and murderers: the context of English forensic psychiatric hospitals. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 31 (5), pp.598-611.en
dc.identifier.other10.1108/JHOM-10-2016-0202
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/11555
dc.description.abstractPurpose The purpose of this paper is to add to the understanding of context by shedding light on the relationship between context and organisational actors? abilities to resolve ongoing challenges. Design/methodology/approach The authors used qualitative data collection (interviews and focus groups with staff and site visits to English forensic psychiatry hospitals) and the analysis was informed by Lefebvre?s writings on space. Findings Responses to ongoing challenges were both constrained and facilitated by the context, which was negotiated and co-produced by the actors involved. Various (i.e. societal and professional) dimensions of context interacted to create tensions, which resulted in changes in service configuration. These changes were reconciled, to some extent, via discourse. Despite some resolution, the co-production of context preserved contradictions which mean that ongoing challenges were modified, but not resolved entirely. Originality/value The paper highlights the importance of viewing context as co-produced in a continuous manner. This helps us to delineate and understand its dynamic nature and its relationship with the everyday actions and beliefs of the organisational actors concerned.
dc.description.urihttp://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/JHOM-10-2016-0202
dc.subjectPsychiatric hospitalsen
dc.titleMedicine, madness and murderers: the context of English forensic psychiatric hospitalsen
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html.description.abstractPurpose The purpose of this paper is to add to the understanding of context by shedding light on the relationship between context and organisational actors? abilities to resolve ongoing challenges. Design/methodology/approach The authors used qualitative data collection (interviews and focus groups with staff and site visits to English forensic psychiatry hospitals) and the analysis was informed by Lefebvre?s writings on space. Findings Responses to ongoing challenges were both constrained and facilitated by the context, which was negotiated and co-produced by the actors involved. Various (i.e. societal and professional) dimensions of context interacted to create tensions, which resulted in changes in service configuration. These changes were reconciled, to some extent, via discourse. Despite some resolution, the co-production of context preserved contradictions which mean that ongoing challenges were modified, but not resolved entirely. Originality/value The paper highlights the importance of viewing context as co-produced in a continuous manner. This helps us to delineate and understand its dynamic nature and its relationship with the everyday actions and beliefs of the organisational actors concerned.


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